by Wall St. Peon on Fri Feb 07, 2003 3:14 am
I have ethernet (which is the basically the fastest possible internet connection), and the thread takes significantly longer than any other site or web page because of all the images, large or small. The previous pages were worse, as there were hundreds of shoe images, plus the previews, plus the avatars, plus the sigs...
At home, broadband, wireless, and so on is expensive as hell, and most people are still on 56k simply because it's more cost effective. Unless you're playing online games, you don't really need an insanely fast connection...it's faster, but not needed...
Oh, some countries/internet providers have limits on downloads...I know several Aussies on the board have something like that...so if they're downloading a ton of pics in this thread, it's a problem...
Shane